Ben Pring (Futurist and Author)
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Ali Tamaseb (Partner at DCVC & Author)
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Samuel B. Nelson (Founder Of Message On The Go)
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Dr. Shantanu Nundy (Chief Medical Officer of Accolade)
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#2 Startup Pivots: Nintendo
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Steve Wiideman (Co-Founder & CEO of Wiideman Consulting Group)
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Ed Hess(Professor & Batten Executive-in-Residence & Batten Faculty Fellow at Darden Graduate Business School)
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Harma Hartouni (Author& CEO of Harma Industries)
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Can You Achieve Immortality?
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In this episode, we talking about achieving immortality through entrepreneurship while paying tribute to a legend. We discuss philanthropy, creating a great culture, and more.
info_outlineIn this episode, we talk to Tim Calkins(College Professor & Consultant) as we discuss this year's Super Bowl Ads, his book, and so much more.
Be sure to check out TimCalkins.com
Purchase his book How To Wash A Chicken: Mastering The Business Presentation
**More On Tim**
Tim is a marketing professor, author, speaker and consultant.
His newest book is a guide to creating and delivering powerful business presentations. It is titled How to Wash a Chicken: Master the Business Presentation. You can read more about the new book here.
Tim is Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He teaches courses including Marketing Strategy and Biomedical Marketing in the full-time, part-time and international executive MBA programs. He is also co-academic director of the Kellogg on Branding executive education program.
He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence. In 2018, he received the Top Professor Award from Germany’s Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program. He won the Lawrence G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the top teaching award at Kellogg, in 2006 and 2013, making him one of just four people in the award’s more than forty year history to have won it twice. He also received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, two Kellogg Faculty Impact Awards, and the Kellogg Executive MBA Program’s Top Professor Award four times. Poets & Quants included him on its list “Favorite MBA Professors of 2016.”
In addition to How to Wash a Chicken, Tim is the author of Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Expert Marketer Magazine named Defending Your Brand the 2013 Marketing Book of the Year. He also wrote Breakthrough Marketing Plans (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 and 2012). He is co-editor of Kellogg on Branding (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) and Kellogg on Branding in a Hyper-Connected World (John Wiley & Sons, 2019).
Tim manages Building Strong Brands, a blog on brand strategy. Inc.com, the Web arm of Inc. Magazine, included the blog on its list of “Six Blogs That Can Teach You More Than an MBA.”
He has published more than a dozen Kellogg case studies including Crestor, MedImmune: FluMist Introduction and Genzyme: the Synvisc-One Investment Decision. He has authored more than two dozen articles on marketing topics.
Tim is an expert on Super Bowl advertising. He created the Kellogg Super Bowl Advertising Review in 2005 and has led the event ever since. Over the past ten years, the program has generated more than five billion media impressions.
He has served as a judge for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s WOMMY Awards, the Native Creatives Awards and the EthicMark Awards.
In addition to teaching at Kellogg, Tim works with major corporations around the world on strategy and branding issues. His recent clients include Eli Lilly, Hearst and AbbVie. He is managing director of Class 5 Consulting, a marketing strategy firm.
Tim is frequently cited by the media. He has been quoted in publications including Business Week, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He has appeared on all of the major television networks.
He serves on the board of the Alliance Française de Chicago and completed two terms on the board of the Lycée Français, Chicago’s French-International School.
Tim began his career at the consulting firm Booz Allen and Hamilton, where he worked on strategy projects. He joined the marketing team at Kraft Foods in 1991. During his almost 11 years at Kraft, he led brands including Miracle Whip, Taco Bell, Parkay and DiGiorno. He was responsible for the launch of more than two dozen new products.
He received his BA from Yale and his MBA from Harvard. Tim lives in Chicago with his wife and three children, and no chickens.
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Written by: Dominic Lawson
Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson
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